Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office deputies are looking for a man wanted in connection with a Wednesday morning break-in.

Sheriff Alan Norman said one man was being questioned Wednesday afternoon and a second fled after deputies stopped a van the two were driving.

Earlier in the day, the sheriff’s office got a call that a home had been broken into on the 100 block of Castle Court, a short distance from the Gaston County line.

The caller described seeing two men in a white van.

Not long after, Norman said, a deputy noticed a white panel van in the Ebenezer Community not far from Castle Court and said the driver was acting suspiciously.

When the deputy attempted to stop the van, the driver led officers on a short chase, stopped the vehicle and then ran, Norman said.

“One was taken into custody a short time later,” he said.

Anthony Jackson Griffa, 20, from Gastonia, was taken in for questioning but had not been charged as of Wednesday afternoon.

Normansaid law enforcement officers in Cleveland and Gaston counties were in the process of obtaining arrest warrants. He said several thousand dollars worth of stolen items were recovered from the van.

He said the two could possibly be linked to other break-ins around the county and expects a minimum of two breaking and entering cases will be cleared through the investigation into Odems and Griffa.

The second man, Travis Lamar Odems, 29, whose last known address was 1078 Mountain Crest Court in Kings Mountain, is still on the loose.

The sheriff’s office is looking for any information on his whereabouts.